US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Oct. 21 for "Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,166, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device" was invented by Yong Jin Jeong (Icheon, South Korea) and Sang Gu Yeo (Icheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device may include a first contact plug, a word line electrically connected to the first contact plug and extending in a first direction, a second contact plug, a bit line extending in a second direction that intersects the first direction, and a memory cell disposed between the word line and the bit line and including a variable resistance layer. The b...